B&O Cover Art

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matador
matador
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2425 posts
Posted October 16, 2018 at 20:09 GMT
#2113145

Hi guys,

You can call me crazy but I like papers. You know all this little books and stuff that (use to) come with things and that you can take into the bed to kind of keep playing with the toys when its too late in the day to make them shout!

Well I slowly became fond of B&O manuals Art covers and I started a little project.

So far i've detected 4 generation of user guides:

- The red/blue/black ones with jitter drawings edges.
- The very graphical ones (see my example below).
- The ones with a photography of a detail of the device.
- The (to my knowledge…) last and current ones with a mosaic of grey current B&O lineup. (not interesting to me.

So, my goal is to turn this:

 

Location: Paris France

matador
matador
BronzeModerator
2425 posts
Posted October 16, 2018 at 20:10 GMT
#2113146

… Into this

 

Location: Paris France

matador
matador
BronzeModerator
2425 posts
Posted October 16, 2018 at 20:19 GMT
#2113147

Fo those who knows, its vector art which mean you can print it stamp size or big poster size without quality loss (for the graphical ones only).

For the photographical ones it should be more complicated, and even more since the B&O Press Mediacenter looks to be closed now.

So there come my question:

If you have any of this littles books, would you mind to scan or shoot the cover and post it here for me to use it as a model?
In exchange i will share my files and may even made some on-demand adjustments (like removing or customizing texts).

Any source for high quality (res) ) pics are also welcome.

Hope you could help me.

Thank you.

M.

 

Location: Paris France

EL
elephant
BronzeFounder
6025 posts
Posted October 16, 2018 at 23:47 GMT
#2113148
Would you be interested in a family of these ?

matador
matador
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2425 posts
Posted October 17, 2018 at 07:22 GMT
#2113149

Hi Elephant,

I din't know those ones. I find them graphically less interesting. But i can "remark them if anyone wants them too. In that case just post the size too as to my knowledge there's no PDF of the content lying around over the internet like for almost all the 90's products.

 

Location: Paris France

EL
elephant
BronzeFounder
6025 posts
Posted October 17, 2018 at 21:44 GMT
#2113150
Thanks for the offer

I have no need myself for them although I love their minimalist approach

It was just for you if you wanted a hobby challenge !
matador
matador
BronzeModerator
2425 posts
Posted October 18, 2018 at 09:36 GMT
#2113151

Beolab 5

Location: Paris France

matador
matador
BronzeModerator
2425 posts
Posted October 18, 2018 at 16:40 GMT
#2113152

Beocom 4

 

Location: Paris France

SB
Saint Beogrowler
Bronze
807 posts
Posted October 18, 2018 at 17:49 GMT
#2113153
matador43 wrote:

Fo those who knows, its vector art which mean you can print it stamp size or big poster size without quality loss (for the graphical ones only).

For the photographical ones it should be more complicated, and even more since the B&O Press Mediacenter looks to be closed now.

So there come my question:

If you have any of this littles books, would you mind to scan or shoot the cover and post it here for me to use it as a model? In exchange i will share my files and may even made some on-demand adjustments (like removing or customizing texts).

Any source for high quality (res) ) pics are also welcome.

Hope you could help me.

Thank you.

M.

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SB
Saint Beogrowler
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807 posts
Posted October 18, 2018 at 17:53 GMT
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